I hope
Innula Zenovka will forgive me for crosspost replying to something in another thread on the topic of retraining people. I just find the overarching topic interesting.
Anyway, my first gut impulse there is on the issue of homelessness. Every so often in Canada you'll find a region, province, municipality, what have you will make an initiative to provide support. The surrounding regions either do nothing or provide bus tickets and the initial region finds its resources crushed like an apple under the tire of a jacked up Ford F-350 crew cab long box. And then there was the time
an empathy black hole decided to reduce their social assistance burden by issuing bus tickets to the neighbouring province. (Alberta to BC) (It's an
ongoing theme, and an understandable one given that there's just a small patch of the country that's not a deep freeze for a few months every year.)
So I agree that local coordination is best. I agree that national assistance is needed. I would argue that federal level
enforcement and oversight is also needed lest the empathy void areas merely pork barrel the funds and rely on the good faith actors to carry the load.